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In 2014 and 2015, polls of posters' favorite books were conducted on /lit/.  In 2015, the poll asked for a list of both the responder's three favorite books and three favorite authors.  The responses to these polls generated the below infographics.  
From 2014, polls of posters' favorite books have been conducted every year on /lit/. The responses to these polls generated the below infographics. After 2017, lists continued to be created, but without polls. 


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(In 2015, the poll also asked for a list of the responder's and three favorite authors. This was not continued from 2016 onwards.)
Top100lit2014.jpg|/lit/ top 100 books circa 2014
top100lit2015.jpg|/lit/ top 100 books circa 2015
top100litauthors2015.jpg|/lit/ top 100 authors circa 2015
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Facts about the similarities and differences between the 2014 poll results and the 2015 poll results are as follows:
Facts about the similarities and differences between the 2014 poll results and the 2015 poll results are as follows:


<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">69% of the books from the 2014 list made it onto the 2015 list.</span>
* 69% of the books from the 2014 list made it onto the 2015 list.


<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">The highest placing new additions to the 2015 list are:</span>
<br />


<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">1. Confederacy of Dunces (26)</span>
* The highest placing new additions to the 2015 list are:
*# Confederacy of Dunces (26)
*#Book of the New Sun (27)
*#Les Miserables (35)
*#If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (50)
*#For Whom the Bell Tolls (53)


<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">2. Book of the New Sun (27)</span>
* The highest placing books to drop off the 2014 list are:
*# The Plague (35)
*#The Silmarillion (42)
*#Leaves of Grass (53)
*#Harry Potter series (54)
*#A Clockwork Orange (55)<br />


<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">3. Les Miserables (35)</span>
* Of the books that stayed on the list, the greatest gains were made by:
*# The Iliad (94 to 18)
*#The Old Man and the Sea (97 to 34)
*#Paradise Lost (98 to 37)
*#Portrait of the Artist (67 to 12)
*#Steppenwolf (93 to 42)


<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">4. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (50)</span>
* The greatest losses were:
*# Dune (29 to 83)
*#The Picture of Dorian Gray (16 to 64)
*#A Farewell to Arms (46 to 93)
*#Journey to the End of the Night (10 to 52)
*#Invisible Cities (22 to 57)


<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">5. For Whom the Bell Tolls (53)</span>


<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">The highest placing books to drop off the 2014 list are:</span>


<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">1. The Plague (35)</span>
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2014-2017 Top 100.jpg|2014 - 2017
<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">2. The Silmarillion (42)</span>
Top100lit2014.jpg|2014
 
Top100lit2015.jpg|2015
<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">3. Leaves of Grass (53)</span>
Top 100 Authors (2015) .jpg|Authors 2015
 
Top100-2016.jpeg|2016
<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">4. Harry Potter series (54)</span>
2017.jpg|2017
 
1546199776754.jpg|2018
<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">5. A Clockwork Orange (55)</span>
Lit 1000 2019.jpg|2019
 
1609171124505.jpg|2020
<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">Of the books that stayed on the list, the greatest gains were made by:</span>
Top novels 2002.jpg|Top Novels 2020
 
Top100list2020-notrolls.jpg|2020 (modified/fake without trolls)
<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">1. The Iliad (94 to 18)</span>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">2. The Old Man and the Sea (97 to 34)</span>
 
<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">3. Paradise Lost (98 to 37)</span>
 
<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">4. Portrait of the Artist (67 to 12)</span>
 
<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">5. Steppenwolf (93 to 42)</span>
 
<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">The greatest losses were:</span>
 
<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">1. Dune (29 to 83)</span>
 
<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">2. The Picture of Dorian Gray (16 to 64)</span>
 
<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">3. A Farewell to Arms (46 to 93)</span>


<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">4. Journey to the End of the Night (10 to 52)</span>
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! data-sort-type:number |'''Avg / % Listed'''
|-
|1984
|Orwell
|31
|22
|21
|19
|25
|15
|19
|21.7
|-
|2666
|Bolaño
|99
|56
|29
|22
|34
|24
|15
|39.9
|-
|60 Stories 
|Barthelme
|
|
|
|95
|
|
|
|665
|-
|A Canticle for Leibowitz
|Miller Jr.
|100
|
|
|
|
|
|
|700
|-
|A Clockwork Orange
|Burgess
|
|
|98
|
|
|
|55
|267.8
|-
|A Confederacy of Dunces
|Toole
|53
|46
|88
|49
|59
|26
|
|62.7
|-
|A Farewell to Arms
|Hemingway
|
|
|
|
|
|93
|46
|243.3
|-
|A Hero of Our Time
|Lermontov
|
|67
|
|
|
|76
|
|250.3
|-
|A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
|Joyce
|
|65
|38
|20
|31
|12
|67
|45.3
|-
|A Scanner Darkly
|Dick
|
|
|
|
|
|99
|
|693
|-
|A Tale of Two Cities
|Dickens
|
|
|
|
|
|88
|92
|315
|-
|Absalom, Absalom!
|Faulkner
|73
|
|
|
|82
|51
|79
|124.7
|-
|Ada, or Ardor
|Nabokov
|
|
|
|
|66
|96
|
|283.5
|-
|Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
|Twain
|
|
|
|
|
|
|68
|476
|-
|Aeneid
|Virgil
|
|
|63
|82
|89
|
|
|182
|-
|Against Nature
|Huysmans
|
|53
|94
|45
|
|
|
|149.3
|-
|Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
|Carroll
|
|
|
|83
|97
|81
|73
|146.1
|-
|American Psycho
|Ellis
|44
|60
|90
|88
|65
|80
|51
|68.3
|-
|Animal Farm
|Orwell
|
|
|
|72
|
|
|83
|271.3
|-
|Anna Karenina
|Tolstoy
|21
|14
|17
|34
|20
|21
|28
|22.1
|-
|Antifragile
|Taleb
|86
|
|
|
|
|
|
|602
|-
|Arcades Project
|Benjamin
|
|88
|
|
|
|
|
|616
|-
|As I Lay Dying
|Faulkner
|
|
|
|87
|88
|69
|48
|127.8
|-
|Being and Time
|Heidegger
|22
|
|
|
|
|
|
|154
|-
|Beyond Good and Evil
|Nietzsche
|
|96
|80
|92
|
|
|
|208.4
|-
|Blood Meridian
|McCarthy
|15
|17
|11
|23
|8
|8
|4
|12.3
|-
|Bottom's Dream
|Schmidt
|
|
|
|
|61
|
|
|427
|-
|Brave New World
|Huxley
|39
|59
|40
|38
|71
|65
|
|60.7
|-
|Bronze Age Mindset
|Bronze Age Pervert
|54
|
|
|
|
|
|
|378
|-
|Buddenbrooks
|Mann
|62
|
|
|
|
|
|
|434
|-
|Candide
|Voltaire
|
|97
|
|85
|
|
|
|318.5
|-
|Cannery Row
|Steinbeck
|
|
|
|
|
|78
|
|546
|-
|Capital
|Marx
|63
|26
|57
|
|
|
|
|113.6
|-
|Catch 22
|Heller
|32
|45
|27
|42
|35
|10
|14
|29.3
|-
|Confessions
|Augustine
|
|31
|59
|51
|
|
|
|109.7
|-
|Confessions of a Mask
|Mishima
|
|81
|
|
|
|
|
|567
|-
|Correction
|Bernhard
|
|66
|43
|
|
|
|
|190.8
|-
|Crime and Punishment
|Dostoevsky
|5
|4
|2
|10
|12
|5
|13
|7.3
|-
|Critique of Pure Reason
|Kant
|48
|93
|
|
|
|
|
|246.8
|-
|Cryptonomicon
|Stephenson
|
|
|
|98
|
|
|
|686
|-
|Dandelion Wine
|Bradbury
|
|
|
|
|
|
|77
|539
|-
|Dead Souls
|Gogol
|
|
|
|61
|93
|95
|71
|140
|-
|Demons 
|Dostoevsky
|75
|78
|
|
|
|
|
|267.8
|-
|Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
|Dick
|
|
|
|
|
|92
|60
|266
|-
|Don Quixote
|Cervantes
|8
|6
|12
|8
|11
|11
|8
|9.1
|-
|Dubliners
|Joyce
|88
|27
|22
|15
|19
|14
|40
|32.1
|-
|Dune
|Herbert
|
|71
|
|53
|74
|83
|29
|86.8
|-
|East of Eden
|Steinbeck
|
|37
|36
|89
|44
|41
|84
|64.4
|-
|Essays
|Montaigne
|
|63
|52
|
|
|
|
|201.3
|-
|Ethics
|Spinoza
|94
|
|
|
|
|
|
|658
|-
|Extinction
|Bernhard
|45
|
|
|
|
|
|
|315
|-
|Fanged Noumena
|Land
|
|
|
|66
|
|
|
|462
|-
|Farenheit 451
|Bradbury
|
|
|
|70
|
|77
|
|257.3
|-
|Faust
|Goethe
|76
|30
|28
|46
|33
|
|65
|54.1
|-
|Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
|Thompson
|
|
|
|
|
|
|59
|413
|-
|Fear and Trembling
|Kierkegaard
|
|68
|75
|
|
|
|
|250.3
|-
|Fictions
|Borges
|17
|41
|20
|16
|9
|19
|11
|19
|-
|Fight Club
|Palahniuk
|
|
|
|
|
|
|87
|609
|-
|Finnegan's Wake 
|Joyce
|
|75
|81
|30
|39
|
|
|98.4
|-
|For Whom the Bell Tolls
|Hemingway
|
|
|
|
|
|53
|
|371
|-
|Foucault's Pendulum
|Eco
|77
|
|
|
|
|
|
|539
|-
|Frankenstein 
|Shelley
|
|100
|
|
|
|
|
|700
|-
|Franny & Zooey
|Salinger
|
|
|
|
|87
|
|88
|306.3
|-
|Gravity's Rainbow
|Pynchon
|55
|10
|8
|4
|7
|6
|7
|13.9
|-
|Growth of the Soil
|Hamsun
|
|76
|
|
|
|
|
|532
|-
|Hamlet 
|Shakespeare
|23
|20
|14
|25
|30
|38
|21
|24.4
|-
|Heart of Darkness
|Conrad
|
|57
|70
|56
|62
|61
|43
|67.9
|-
|History of Charles XII
|Voltaire
|27
|
|
|
|
|
|
|189
|-
|Hopscotch
|Cortázar
|
|52
|
|
|
|
|86
|241.5
|-
|House of Leaves
|Danielewski
|69
|
|
|
|
|
|
|483
|-
|Hunger
|Hamsun
|
|
|42
|59
|54
|60
|72
|80.4
|-
|I Am a Cat
|Sōseki
|
|
|
|
|
|
|99
|693
|-
|If on a Winter's Night a Traveler 
|Calvino
|
|
|100
|
|47
|50
|
|153.2
|-
|Illuminatus!
|Wilson; Shea
|
|
|
|
|
|
|95
|665
|-
|Industrial Society and its Future
|Kaczynski
|11
|
|
|
|
|
|
|77
|-
|In Search of Lost Time
|Proust
|24
|24
|19
|14
|22
|29
|45
|25.3
|-
|Infinite Jest
|Wallace
|16
|11
|10
|3
|3
|1
|1
|6.4
|-
|Invisible Cities
|Calvino
|89
|85
|54
|84
|81
|57
|22
|67.4
|-
|J R
|Gaddis
|36 
|
|77
|57
|75
|
|
|91.4
|-
|Jerusalem
|Moore
|
|
|
|48
|29
|
|
|134.8
|-
|Journey to the End of the Night
|Céline
|46
|39
|35
|
|60
|52
|10
|47.1
|-
|Kafka on the Shore
|Murakami
|
|95
|
|
|86
|73
|
|197.6
|-
|King Lear
|Shakespeare
|
|98
|91
|
|79
|
|
|208.4
|-
|Kokoro
|Sōseki
|
|69
|
|
|
|
|
|483
|-
|Leaves of Grass
|Whitman
|
|
|
|86
|
|
|53
|243.3
|-
|Les Misérables
|Hugo
|42
|35
|46
|71
|99
|35
|
|63.8
|-
|Life and Fate
|Grossman
|
|
|99
|
|
|
|
|693
|-
|Light in August
|Faulkner
|
|
|
|
|
|
|70
|490
|-
|Lolita
|Nabokov
|7
|8
|6
|6
|5
|8
|5
|6.4
|-
|London Bridge
|Céline
|90
|
|
|
|
|
|
|630
|-
|Lord of the Flies
|Golding
|
|
|
|100
|
|
|66
|290.5
|-
|Madame Bovary
|Flaubert
|64
|51
|93
|44
|69
|54
|
|72.9
|-
|Malone Dies
|Beckett
|
|
|
|
|
|
|76
|532
|-
|Mason & Dixon
|Pynchon
|
|
|71
|43
|43
|33
|25
|60.2
|-
|Meditations
|Aurelius
|
|40
|65
|36
|63
|79
|
|79.2
|-
|Meditations
|Descartes
|
|
|
|62
|
|
|
|434
|-
|Mein Kampf
|Hitler
|1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|7
|-
|Metamorphoses
|Ovid
|91
|94
|
|
|
|
|
|323.8
|-
|Middlemarch
|Eliot
|
|
|
|
|84
|
|
|588
|-
|Moby Dick
|Melville
|3
|1
|1
|1
|2
|2
|6
|2.3
|-
|Modernity and Cultural Decline
|Woodley et al
|30
|
|
|
|
|
|
|210
|-
|Molloy
|Beckett
|
|
|
|60
|
|
|
|420
|-
|Mrs. Dalloway
|Woolf
|
|
|
|
|90
|
|
|630
|-
|Nausea
|Sartre
|
|
|64
|
|100
|
|
|287
|-
|Neuromancer
|Gibson
|
|
|
|97
|
|
|
|679
|-
|No Longer Human 
|Dazai
|70
|34
|76
|50
|73
|55
|
|69.6
|-
|Notes from Underground
|Dostoevsky
|25
|18
|23
|
|32
|44
|26
|32.7
|-
|Oblomov
|Goncharov
|
|
|
|
|98
|
|
|686
|-
|Of Mice and Men
|Steinbeck
|
|
|74
|
|
|85
|
|278.3
|-
|On the Heights of Despair
|Cioran
|49
|
|
|
|
|
|
|343
|-
|On The Road
|Kerouac
|
|
|
|
|
|
|57
|399
|-
|One Hundred Years of Solitude
|Márquez
|28
|25
|26
|26
|17
|23
|23
|24
|-
|Pale Fire
|Nabokov
|
|72
|47
|24
|36
|70
|81
|64.2
|-
|Pan
|Hamsun
|92
|
|
|77
|
|
|
|295.8
|-
|Paradise Lost
|Milton
|93
|55
|24
|68
|46
|37
|98
|60.1
|-
|Pedro Páramo
|Rulfo
|9
|
|
|
|
|
|
|63
|-
|Phenomenology of Spirit
|Hegel
|
|44
|50
|
|
|
|
|164.5
|-
|Platonic Dialogues
|Plato
|
|
|
|21
|
|
|
|147
|-
|Process and Reality
|Whitehead
|
|29
|
|
|
|
|
|203
|-
|Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
|Salinger
|78
|
|
|
|
|
|
|546
|-
|Roadside Picnic
|Strugatzky, A. & B.
|
|
|
|
|
|89
|85
|304.5
|-
|Satantango
|Krasznahorkai
|33
|
|
|
|
|
|
|231
|-
|Siddhartha
|Hesse
|
|62
|45
|64
|24
|25
|27
|48
|-
|Slaughterhouse-Five
|Vonnegut
|56
|
|62
|
|78
|39
|24
|72.5
|-
|Society of the Spectacle
|Debord
|
|
|
|
|
|90
|
|630
|-
|Solaris
|Lem
|
|
|
|
|
|
|62
|434
|-
|Sometimes a Great Notion
|Kesey
|
|
|67
|
|
|
|
|469
|-
|Steppenwolf
|Hesse
|79
|
|66
|96
|40
|42
|93
|80.9
|-
|Stoner
|Williams
|10
|13
|7
|7
|10
|9
|38
|13.4
|-
|Storm of Steel 
|Jünger
|
|48
|97
|
|
|
|
|253.8
|-
|Story of the Eye
|Bataille
|50
|
|
|
|
|
|
|350
|-
|Summa Theologica
|Aquinas
|
|74
|
|
|
|
|
|518
|-
|Suttree
|McCarthy
|
|
|
|
|
|
|74
|518
|-
|Take Five
|Mano
|51
|
|
|
|
|
|
|357
|-
|Tao Te Ching
|Laozi
|43
|
|
|
|
|
|
|301
|-
|The Aleph
|Borges
|
|
|
|
|
|81
|
|567
|-
|The Anatomy of Melancholy
|Burton
|
|
|
|75
|
|
|
|525
|-
|The Bhagavad Gita
|Vyasa
|74
|73
|
|
|
|
|
|257.3
|-
|The Book of Disquiet
|Pessoa
|34
|16
|32
|47
|58
|48
|41
|39.4
|-
|The Book of the New Sun
|Wolfe
|
|32
|31
|17
|41
|27
|
|41.4
|-
|The Brothers Karamazov
|Dostoevsky
|4
|3
|3
|9
|4
|3
|3
|4.1
|-
|The Canterbury Tales
|Chaucer
|
|
|
|
|80
|100
|
|315
|-
|The Castle
|Kafka
|
|
|
|79
|95
|
|
|304.5
|-
|The Catcher in the Rye
|Salinger
|37
|43
|37
|58
|52
|16
|17
|37.1
|-
|The Changing Light at Sandover
|Merrill
|57
|
|
|
|
|
|
|399
|-
|The Confidence-Man
|Melville
|87
|
|
|
|
|
|
|609
|-
|The Count of Monte Cristo
|Dumas
|40
|36
|34
|90
|51
|59
|100
|58.6
|-
|The Crying of Lot 49
|Pynchon
|
|87
|86
|52
|42
|45
|47
|69.8
|-
|The Death of Ivan Ilych
|Tolstoy
|
|
|
|
|70
|
|
|490
|-
|The Decline of the West
|Spengler
|
|90
|78
|
|
|
|
|294
|-
|The Divine Comedy
|Alighieri
|38
|7
|16
|13
|16
|30
|32
|21.7
|-
|The Ego & His Own
|Stirner
|
|
|
|
|
|71
|
|497
|-
|The Elementary Particles
|Houellebecq
|65
|77
|96
|
|
|
|
|185.1
|-
|The Faerie Queene
|Spenser
|
|
|
|94
|
|
|
|658
|-
|The Fall
|Camus
|
|
|
|76
|
|
|91
|292.3
|-
|The Flowers of Evil
|Baudelaire
|
|
|
|
|
|91
|
|637
|-
|The Fountainhead
|Rand
|95
|
|
|
|
|
|
|665
|-
|The Glass Bead Game
|Hesse
|
|
|79
|
|
|
|
|553
|-
|The Golden Bowl
|James
|80
|89
|
|
|
|
|
|295.8
|-
|The Good Earth
|Buck
|
|
|
|
|
|
|96
|672
|-
|The Grapes of Wrath
|Steinbeck
|
|84
|84
|
|77
|
|56
|131.7
|-
|The Great Gatsby 
|Fitzgerald
|
|
|58
|
|92
|46
|20
|94.5
|-
|The Gulag Archipelago
|Solzhenitsyn
|
|
|
|65
|
|
|
|455
|-
|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
|Adams
|
|
|
|
|
|
|90
|630
|-
|The Hobbit
|Tolkien
|
|
|60
|
|
|72
|44
|136.9
|-
|The Holy Bible 
|
|2
|2
|4
|5
|6
|22
|64
|15
|-
|The Idiot
|Dostoevsky
|66
|33
|48
|80
|45
|58
|
|64.2
|-
|The Iliad
|Homer
|6
|9
|9
|11
|15
|18
|94
|23.1
|-
|The Leopard
|Lampedusa
|
|
|82
|
|
|
|
|574
|-
|The Lord of the Rings
|Tolkien
|18
|38
|51
|33
|48
|63
|
|48.8
|-
|The Magic Mountain
|Mann
|
|61
|49
|39
|53
|75
|
|77.6
|-
|The Major Works
|Browne
|81
|
|
|
|
|
|
|567
|-
|The Making of Americans
|Stein
|41
|
|
|
|
|
|
|287
|-
|The Man Without Qualities
|Musil
|
|49
|
|73
|83
|
|
|159.4
|-
|The Master and Margarita
|Bulgakov
|14
|50
|56
|27
|23
|20
|34
|32
|-
|The Metamorphosis
|Kafka
|58
|42
|55
|81
|26
|47
|49
|51.1
|-
|The Naked Lunch 
|Burroughs
|
|
|89
|74
|96
|74
|50
|107.2
|-
|The Name of the Rose
|Eco
|
|99
|95
|
|
|86
|
|217.8
|-
|The Odyssey
|Homer
|29
|12
|15
|28
|21
|31
|31
|23.9
|-
|The Old Man and The Sea
|Hemingway
|
|
|
|67
|
|34
|97
|154
|-
|The Opposing Shore
|Gracq
|82
|
|
|
|
|
|
|574
|-
|The Pale King
|Wallace
|
|
|
|63
|67
|
|69
|154.8
|-
|The Passion According to G.H.
|Lispector
|83
|
|
|
|
|
|
|581
|-
|The Picture of Dorian Gray 
|Wilde
|
|
|61
|54
|38
|64
|16
|65.2
|-
|The Plague
|Camus
|
|
|
|
|
|
|35
|245
|-
|The Portrait of a Lady
|James
|84
|
|
|
|
|
|
|588
|-
|The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
|Assis
|59
|
|
|40
|
|
|
|173.3
|-
|The Prince
|Machiavelli
|
|92
|
|
|
|
|
|644
|-
|The Quran
|
|19
|91
|
|
|
|
|
|192.5
|-
|The Recognitions
|Gaddis
|
|28
|44
|18
|27
|56
|
|48.4
|-
|The Red & The Black
|Stendhal
|
|70
|92
|
|
|
|
|283.5
|-
|The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
|Guénon
|71
|
|
|
|
|
|
|497
|-
|The Remains of the Day
|Ishiguro
|
|
|
|
|
|87
|
|609
|-
|The Republic
|Plato
|26
|23
|39
|
|68
|
|
|68.3
|-
|The Rings of Saturn
|Sebald
|
|
|
|78
|
|
|
|546
|-
|The Road
|McCarthy
|
|
|
|69
|
|
|
|483
|-
|The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea
|Mishima
|
|47
|68
|
|
|
|
|201.3
|-
|The Savage Detectives
|Bolaño
|
|86
|
|31
|55
|43
|63
|77.8
|-
|The Secret History
|Tartt
|96
|
|
|
|
|
|
|672
|-
|The Simarillion
|Tolkien
|
|
|
|
|
|
|42
|294
|-
|The Sirens of Titan
|Vonnegut
|
|
|
|
|
|67
|
|469
|-
|The Sorrows of Young Werther
|Goethe
|
|
|87
|
|
|
|
|609
|-
|The Sound and the Fury
|Faulkner
|
|64
|33
|37
|49
|36
|18
|46.1
|-
|The Stranger
|Camus
|12
|21
|13
|32
|13
|13
|2
|15.1
|-
|The Sun Also Rises
|Hemingway
|
|80
|53
|93
|72
|62
|52
|80.1
|-
|The Tartar Steppe
|Buzzati
|60
|
|
|
|
|
|
|420
|-
|The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
|Mishima
|
|
|
|99
|
|
|58
|274.8
|-
|The Trial
|Kafka
|47
|
|30
|12
|14
|28
|9
|27.2
|-
|The Trilogy
|Beckett
|67
|
|69
|
|28
|
|
|127.6
|-
|The Tropic of Cancer
|Miller
|
|
|
|
|
|84
|
|588
|-
|The Tunnel
|Gass
|
|58
|72
|
|76
|
|
|160.2
|-
|The Unbearable Lightness of Being
|Kundera
|
|
|
|
|
|98
|
|686
|-
|The Unconsoled
|Ishiguro
|52
|
|
|
|
|
|
|364
|-
|The Wasp Factory
|Banks
|
|
|
|
|
|
|80
|560
|-
|The Waste Land
|Eliot
|
|
|
|
|91
|
|
|637
|-
|The Waves
|Woolf
|
|
|85
|91
|50
|49
|33
|86.2
|-
|The World as Will and Representation
|Schopenhauer
|
|79
|
|
|
|
|
|553
|-
|Thus Spoke Zarathustra
|Nietzsche
|72
|19
|25
|
|56
|97
|82
|68.3
|-
|To the Lighthouse
|Woolf
|61
|54
|73
|41
|57
|94
|75
|65
|-
|Tristram Shandy
|Sterne
|
|83
|83
|
|64
|
|
|178.9
|-
|Ubik
|Dick
|
|
|
|
|
|
|61
|427
|-
|Ubu Roi
|Jarry
|35
|
|
|
|
|
|
|245
|-
|Ulysses
|Joyce
|20
|5
|5
|2
|1
|4
|12
|7
|-
|Under the Volcano
|Lowry
|
|82
|
|
|85
|
|
|292.3
|-
|V. 
|Pynchon
|68
|
|41
|35
|37
|40
|30
|48.8
|-
|Valis
|Dick
|
|
|
|
|
|
|78
|546
|-
|Voss
|White
|85
|
|
|
|
|
|
|595
|-
|Walden
|Thoreau
|
|
|
|
|
|
|89
|623
|-
|War and Peace
|Tolstoy
|13
|15
|18
|29
|18
|32
|36
|23
|-
|Watership Down
|Adams
|
|
|
|
|
|66
|
|462
|-
|White Fragility
|DiAngelo
|97
|
|
|
|
|
|
|679
|-
|White Noise
|DeLillo
|
|
|
|55
|94
|17
|37
|88.8
|-
|Wuthering Heights
|Brontë
|
|
|
|
|
|68
|39
|187.3
|-
|Zhuangzi
|Zhuangzi
|98
|
|
|
|
|
|
|686
|}
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[[Category:Recommended Reading]]
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[[File:4chan 2019 top 100.jpg|thumb|407x407px|/lit/ top 100 books circa 2019 (fake list)|alt=|right]]
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[[File:1576953749636.jpg|thumb|407x407px|/lit/ top 100 books circa 2019 (real list)|alt=|right]]
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[[File:2014-2017 Top 100.jpg|800px|right|Collected 2014-2017 Top 100]]
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Latest revision as of 08:07, 19 December 2023

From 2014, polls of posters' favorite books have been conducted every year on /lit/. The responses to these polls generated the below infographics. After 2017, lists continued to be created, but without polls.

(In 2015, the poll also asked for a list of the responder's and three favorite authors. This was not continued from 2016 onwards.)

Facts about the similarities and differences between the 2014 poll results and the 2015 poll results are as follows:

  • 69% of the books from the 2014 list made it onto the 2015 list.


  • The highest placing new additions to the 2015 list are:
    1. Confederacy of Dunces (26)
    2. Book of the New Sun (27)
    3. Les Miserables (35)
    4. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (50)
    5. For Whom the Bell Tolls (53)
  • The highest placing books to drop off the 2014 list are:
    1. The Plague (35)
    2. The Silmarillion (42)
    3. Leaves of Grass (53)
    4. Harry Potter series (54)
    5. A Clockwork Orange (55)
  • Of the books that stayed on the list, the greatest gains were made by:
    1. The Iliad (94 to 18)
    2. The Old Man and the Sea (97 to 34)
    3. Paradise Lost (98 to 37)
    4. Portrait of the Artist (67 to 12)
    5. Steppenwolf (93 to 42)
  • The greatest losses were:
    1. Dune (29 to 83)
    2. The Picture of Dorian Gray (16 to 64)
    3. A Farewell to Arms (46 to 93)
    4. Journey to the End of the Night (10 to 52)
    5. Invisible Cities (22 to 57)


Title Author 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 Avg / % Listed
1984 Orwell 31 22 21 19 25 15 19 21.7
2666 Bolaño 99 56 29 22 34 24 15 39.9
60 Stories  Barthelme 95 665
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller Jr. 100 700
A Clockwork Orange Burgess 98 55 267.8
A Confederacy of Dunces Toole 53 46 88 49 59 26 62.7
A Farewell to Arms Hemingway 93 46 243.3
A Hero of Our Time Lermontov 67 76 250.3
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce 65 38 20 31 12 67 45.3
A Scanner Darkly Dick 99 693
A Tale of Two Cities Dickens 88 92 315
Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner 73 82 51 79 124.7
Ada, or Ardor Nabokov 66 96 283.5
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain 68 476
Aeneid Virgil 63 82 89 182
Against Nature Huysmans 53 94 45 149.3
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll 83 97 81 73 146.1
American Psycho Ellis 44 60 90 88 65 80 51 68.3
Animal Farm Orwell 72 83 271.3
Anna Karenina Tolstoy 21 14 17 34 20 21 28 22.1
Antifragile Taleb 86 602
Arcades Project Benjamin 88 616
As I Lay Dying Faulkner 87 88 69 48 127.8
Being and Time Heidegger 22 154
Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche 96 80 92 208.4
Blood Meridian McCarthy 15 17 11 23 8 8 4 12.3
Bottom's Dream Schmidt 61 427
Brave New World Huxley 39 59 40 38 71 65 60.7
Bronze Age Mindset Bronze Age Pervert 54 378
Buddenbrooks Mann 62 434
Candide Voltaire 97 85 318.5
Cannery Row Steinbeck 78 546
Capital Marx 63 26 57 113.6
Catch 22 Heller 32 45 27 42 35 10 14 29.3
Confessions Augustine 31 59 51 109.7
Confessions of a Mask Mishima 81 567
Correction Bernhard 66 43 190.8
Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky 5 4 2 10 12 5 13 7.3
Critique of Pure Reason Kant 48 93 246.8
Cryptonomicon Stephenson 98 686
Dandelion Wine Bradbury 77 539
Dead Souls Gogol 61 93 95 71 140
Demons  Dostoevsky 75 78 267.8
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dick 92 60 266
Don Quixote Cervantes 8 6 12 8 11 11 8 9.1
Dubliners Joyce 88 27 22 15 19 14 40 32.1
Dune Herbert 71 53 74 83 29 86.8
East of Eden Steinbeck 37 36 89 44 41 84 64.4
Essays Montaigne 63 52 201.3
Ethics Spinoza 94 658
Extinction Bernhard 45 315
Fanged Noumena Land 66 462
Farenheit 451 Bradbury 70 77 257.3
Faust Goethe 76 30 28 46 33 65 54.1
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Thompson 59 413
Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard 68 75 250.3
Fictions Borges 17 41 20 16 9 19 11 19
Fight Club Palahniuk 87 609
Finnegan's Wake  Joyce 75 81 30 39 98.4
For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway 53 371
Foucault's Pendulum Eco 77 539
Frankenstein  Shelley 100 700
Franny & Zooey Salinger 87 88 306.3
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon 55 10 8 4 7 6 7 13.9
Growth of the Soil Hamsun 76 532
Hamlet  Shakespeare 23 20 14 25 30 38 21 24.4
Heart of Darkness Conrad 57 70 56 62 61 43 67.9
History of Charles XII Voltaire 27 189
Hopscotch Cortázar 52 86 241.5
House of Leaves Danielewski 69 483
Hunger Hamsun 42 59 54 60 72 80.4
I Am a Cat Sōseki 99 693
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler  Calvino 100 47 50 153.2
Illuminatus! Wilson; Shea 95 665
Industrial Society and its Future Kaczynski 11 77
In Search of Lost Time Proust 24 24 19 14 22 29 45 25.3
Infinite Jest Wallace 16 11 10 3 3 1 1 6.4
Invisible Cities Calvino 89 85 54 84 81 57 22 67.4
J R Gaddis 36  77 57 75 91.4
Jerusalem Moore 48 29 134.8
Journey to the End of the Night Céline 46 39 35 60 52 10 47.1
Kafka on the Shore Murakami 95 86 73 197.6
King Lear Shakespeare 98 91 79 208.4
Kokoro Sōseki 69 483
Leaves of Grass Whitman 86 53 243.3
Les Misérables Hugo 42 35 46 71 99 35 63.8
Life and Fate Grossman 99 693
Light in August Faulkner 70 490
Lolita Nabokov 7 8 6 6 5 8 5 6.4
London Bridge Céline 90 630
Lord of the Flies Golding 100 66 290.5
Madame Bovary Flaubert 64 51 93 44 69 54 72.9
Malone Dies Beckett 76 532
Mason & Dixon Pynchon 71 43 43 33 25 60.2
Meditations Aurelius 40 65 36 63 79 79.2
Meditations Descartes 62 434
Mein Kampf Hitler 1 7
Metamorphoses Ovid 91 94 323.8
Middlemarch Eliot 84 588
Moby Dick Melville 3 1 1 1 2 2 6 2.3
Modernity and Cultural Decline Woodley et al 30 210
Molloy Beckett 60 420
Mrs. Dalloway Woolf 90 630
Nausea Sartre 64 100 287
Neuromancer Gibson 97 679
No Longer Human  Dazai 70 34 76 50 73 55 69.6
Notes from Underground Dostoevsky 25 18 23 32 44 26 32.7
Oblomov Goncharov 98 686
Of Mice and Men Steinbeck 74 85 278.3
On the Heights of Despair Cioran 49 343
On The Road Kerouac 57 399
One Hundred Years of Solitude Márquez 28 25 26 26 17 23 23 24
Pale Fire Nabokov 72 47 24 36 70 81 64.2
Pan Hamsun 92 77 295.8
Paradise Lost Milton 93 55 24 68 46 37 98 60.1
Pedro Páramo Rulfo 9 63
Phenomenology of Spirit Hegel 44 50 164.5
Platonic Dialogues Plato 21 147
Process and Reality Whitehead 29 203
Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction Salinger 78 546
Roadside Picnic Strugatzky, A. & B. 89 85 304.5
Satantango Krasznahorkai 33 231
Siddhartha Hesse 62 45 64 24 25 27 48
Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut 56 62 78 39 24 72.5
Society of the Spectacle Debord 90 630
Solaris Lem 62 434
Sometimes a Great Notion Kesey 67 469
Steppenwolf Hesse 79 66 96 40 42 93 80.9
Stoner Williams 10 13 7 7 10 9 38 13.4
Storm of Steel  Jünger 48 97 253.8
Story of the Eye Bataille 50 350
Summa Theologica Aquinas 74 518
Suttree McCarthy 74 518
Take Five Mano 51 357
Tao Te Ching Laozi 43 301
The Aleph Borges 81 567
The Anatomy of Melancholy Burton 75 525
The Bhagavad Gita Vyasa 74 73 257.3
The Book of Disquiet Pessoa 34 16 32 47 58 48 41 39.4
The Book of the New Sun Wolfe 32 31 17 41 27 41.4
The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky 4 3 3 9 4 3 3 4.1
The Canterbury Tales Chaucer 80 100 315
The Castle Kafka 79 95 304.5
The Catcher in the Rye Salinger 37 43 37 58 52 16 17 37.1
The Changing Light at Sandover Merrill 57 399
The Confidence-Man Melville 87 609
The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas 40 36 34 90 51 59 100 58.6
The Crying of Lot 49 Pynchon 87 86 52 42 45 47 69.8
The Death of Ivan Ilych Tolstoy 70 490
The Decline of the West Spengler 90 78 294
The Divine Comedy Alighieri 38 7 16 13 16 30 32 21.7
The Ego & His Own Stirner 71 497
The Elementary Particles Houellebecq 65 77 96 185.1
The Faerie Queene Spenser 94 658
The Fall Camus 76 91 292.3
The Flowers of Evil Baudelaire 91 637
The Fountainhead Rand 95 665
The Glass Bead Game Hesse 79 553
The Golden Bowl James 80 89 295.8
The Good Earth Buck 96 672
The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck 84 84 77 56 131.7
The Great Gatsby  Fitzgerald 58 92 46 20 94.5
The Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn 65 455
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams 90 630
The Hobbit Tolkien 60 72 44 136.9
The Holy Bible  2 2 4 5 6 22 64 15
The Idiot Dostoevsky 66 33 48 80 45 58 64.2
The Iliad Homer 6 9 9 11 15 18 94 23.1
The Leopard Lampedusa 82 574
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien 18 38 51 33 48 63 48.8
The Magic Mountain Mann 61 49 39 53 75 77.6
The Major Works Browne 81 567
The Making of Americans Stein 41 287
The Man Without Qualities Musil 49 73 83 159.4
The Master and Margarita Bulgakov 14 50 56 27 23 20 34 32
The Metamorphosis Kafka 58 42 55 81 26 47 49 51.1
The Naked Lunch  Burroughs 89 74 96 74 50 107.2
The Name of the Rose Eco 99 95 86 217.8
The Odyssey Homer 29 12 15 28 21 31 31 23.9
The Old Man and The Sea Hemingway 67 34 97 154
The Opposing Shore Gracq 82 574
The Pale King Wallace 63 67 69 154.8
The Passion According to G.H. Lispector 83 581
The Picture of Dorian Gray  Wilde 61 54 38 64 16 65.2
The Plague Camus 35 245
The Portrait of a Lady James 84 588
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas Assis 59 40 173.3
The Prince Machiavelli 92 644
The Quran 19 91 192.5
The Recognitions Gaddis 28 44 18 27 56 48.4
The Red & The Black Stendhal 70 92 283.5
The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times Guénon 71 497
The Remains of the Day Ishiguro 87 609
The Republic Plato 26 23 39 68 68.3
The Rings of Saturn Sebald 78 546
The Road McCarthy 69 483
The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea Mishima 47 68 201.3
The Savage Detectives Bolaño 86 31 55 43 63 77.8
The Secret History Tartt 96 672
The Simarillion Tolkien 42 294
The Sirens of Titan Vonnegut 67 469
The Sorrows of Young Werther Goethe 87 609
The Sound and the Fury Faulkner 64 33 37 49 36 18 46.1
The Stranger Camus 12 21 13 32 13 13 2 15.1
The Sun Also Rises Hemingway 80 53 93 72 62 52 80.1
The Tartar Steppe Buzzati 60 420
The Temple of the Golden Pavillion Mishima 99 58 274.8
The Trial Kafka 47 30 12 14 28 9 27.2
The Trilogy Beckett 67 69 28 127.6
The Tropic of Cancer Miller 84 588
The Tunnel Gass 58 72 76 160.2
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kundera 98 686
The Unconsoled Ishiguro 52 364
The Wasp Factory Banks 80 560
The Waste Land Eliot 91 637
The Waves Woolf 85 91 50 49 33 86.2
The World as Will and Representation Schopenhauer 79 553
Thus Spoke Zarathustra Nietzsche 72 19 25 56 97 82 68.3
To the Lighthouse Woolf 61 54 73 41 57 94 75 65
Tristram Shandy Sterne 83 83 64 178.9
Ubik Dick 61 427
Ubu Roi Jarry 35 245
Ulysses Joyce 20 5 5 2 1 4 12 7
Under the Volcano Lowry 82 85 292.3
V.  Pynchon 68 41 35 37 40 30 48.8
Valis Dick 78 546
Voss White 85 595
Walden Thoreau 89 623
War and Peace Tolstoy 13 15 18 29 18 32 36 23
Watership Down Adams 66 462
White Fragility DiAngelo 97 679
White Noise DeLillo 55 94 17 37 88.8
Wuthering Heights Brontë 68 39 187.3
Zhuangzi Zhuangzi 98 686




/lit/ top 100 books circa 2019 (fake list)


/lit/ top 100 books circa 2019 (real list)


Collected 2014-2017 Top 100
Collected 2014-2017 Top 100